13-letter words containing c, i, n, g
- auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
- back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
- back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
- back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- backing light — Also called backing striplight, backing strip. Theater. a striplight providing diffused illumination for the background of a stage set.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
- bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
- bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
- balancing act — If you perform a balancing act, you try to deal successfully with two or more people, groups, or situations that are in opposition to each other.
- balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
- bargain price — a low price
- basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
- bcg (vaccine) — a vaccine prepared from an attenuated strain of the tubercle bacillus, used for immunization against tuberculosis
- beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
- belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- bengal quince — bael.
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-cone pine — Coulter pine.
- bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
- bill-sticking — a person who posts bills and advertisements.
- billing cycle — the schedule of recurrent times in any regular system of preparing or sending bills.
- binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
- bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- birefringence — the splitting of a light ray, generally by a crystal, into two components that travel at different velocities and are polarized at right angles to each other
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
- blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
- block booking — the making of bookings for a number of people, or e.g. purchasing a number of seats in a theatre, concert hall, etc at the same time
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
- body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
- bolting cloth — a sturdy fabric, usually of fine silk or nylon mesh, used chiefly in serigraphy, embroidery, and as a foundation fabric for wigs.
- bone-chilling — extremely cold
- bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
- booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
- boolean logic — (logic) A logic based on Boolean algebra.